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An Honest Thief

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As I read about all of the

refugees in the world right now—an

estimated sixty million, with half of

them children—my mind returned

to this time of year when I was

twenty years old living in New

York. I was doing missionary work

with three other young men, and the

holidays were approaching. Times

were tough. The GM plant, the

biggest employer, had shut down,

and a lot of people were thrown out

of work. In some areas, the crime

rate was spiraling out of control as

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